Devil5052 wrote:The "Whole Truth" Mike???.....The problem with your thesis is that the VA, like all other Executive Branch Agencies (like FEMA, Justice, etc) answers to one man....GW Bush. He has gotten rid of all the career types who didn't goto the right college, aren't in the right church or share his distorted views of the world...... Any website ending with "dot gov" is really "DOT. Bush"..... until Jan/09.

Opinion established and voiced without experience. Don't throw it into a Bash Bush spout off.

Everyone wants to bash McCain for his stance on Vet Benefits. I'm sure there are some vets out there against McCain's stance. My opinion is those vets are the ones that have their hands out ready to take anything for free given to them. Personally I find that disgusting.

As for experience on Vet Benefits...McCain has more experience than Obama, end of story. Obama has more experience than McCain helping street people in ... what it is it...Chicago?...that I believe is a fact.

Personally...if people have no experience what so ever in Vet Benefits...how can they take everything they hear about them in the media as facts...no experience produces assumptions.

One more opinion... the only thing I expect from my government is my retirement check and retiree benefits...everything else...I'll work for!!

BugsyR wrote:As for experience on Vet Benefits...McCain has more experience than Obama, end of story.

No argument on experience Mike but that experience has not won him good grades among veteran's groups when it comes to his legislative voting record on veterans affairs. If experience itself is the key factor, then how about appointing a life-long, professional bank robber as our next Atty. General since he has lifetime of "experience" with the law? Experience is meaningless unless that experience has provided you with good judgment, which I feel Sen. McCain lacks when compared to Sen. Obama.

Devil5052 wrote:Experience is meaningless unless that experience has provided you with good judgment, which I feel Sen. McCain lacks when compared to Sen. Obama.

Experience, education, or research will prevent the public from thinking that McCain lacked good judgment when he made his decisions about the GI Bill. I really don't much care what non-vets think about his decision but when they want to blast him on his decision by twisting the facts, I will try to apply common sense logic to why a Vet like McCain will push for awarding service members for their length of service instead of giving a new recruit as much as possible just to get them to join.

Personally, I would much rather see 18 year old kids join just because it's the military and that is what they want in their lives. I don't want to see them joining because they are being promised 4 years of college. Or thousands of dollars upon enlistment. The Navy offered me up to 6 years of active duty when I joined...that was it. The Marines offered me $10,000 for a 3 year commitment.

I saw some serious concerns and responded to some of those concerns in other threads about recruiters and the military offering incentives to new recruits just to get kids to join to send them to Iraq and Afghanistan. Do parents really want their children to join the military today under a promise of a 4 year college education for free just for doing a few years of active duty????

McCain knows and is experienced with military matters and military benefits....the media wants everyone to think that he is screwing the armed forces....the public needs to research for themselves instead of taking all the media reports as whole facts.

Another great email I recieved... Once I read it, I realized it had to be shared here. Greg L

This says it about as well as it can be stated.

O = ZERO

Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler

The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no balls, nothing but abstract empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.

He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he rejects. The rest of him is mostly Arab, which he hides but is disclosed by his non-African Arabic surname and his Arabic first and middle names as a way to triply proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in Kenya . Only a small part of him is African Black from his Luo grandmother, which he pretends he is exclusively.

What he isn't, not a genetic drop of, is 'African-American,' the descendant of enslaved Africans brought to America chained in slave ships. He hasn't a single ancestor who was a slave. Instead, his Arab ancestors were slave owners. Slave-trading was the main Arab business in East Africa for centuries until the British ended it.

Let that sink in: Obama is not the descendant of slaves, he is the descendant of slave owners. Thus he makes the perfect Liberal Messiah.

It's something Hillary doesn't understand - how some complete neophyte came out of the blue and stole the Dem nomination from her. Obamamania is beyond politics and reason.

His candidacy is ridiculous and should not be taken seriously by any thinking American. Pass this on to every thinking American you know.

Perhaps you would be kind enough to give us some info (web links) where we can find out about who the author of this very inflammatory email is Greg. Dr. Jack Wheeler??...Why should we believe a word he says in his email?

Within 5 minutes (check the posting times) I found out who Dr. Jack Wheeler is. He's a right wing nut who is the author of ..........Dr. Jack Wheeler: Why Liberals are Fascists........ & other such drivel